Summary:
Union General Darius Couch reports on July 30, 1864, to General in Chief Henry Halleck on the situation in Pennsylvania. Couch describes the fall of Chambersburg and reports no communication with the town since.

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Gen. HALLECK, Chief of Staff:

HARRISBURG,

July 30, 1864

At 3 o'clock this morning Averell was at Greencastle. At 5.30 a. m. the rebels, estimated at not than 800, with artillery, entered Chambersburg after a brisk fight. Since then no communication with that town. You have the number of my troops in the Valley in my dispatch of the 28th instant, less casualties. I have no knowledge of Hunter's position.

D. N. COUCH,
Maj.-Gen.

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Bibliographic Information : Letter Reproduced from The War of The Rebellion: Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Series 1, Volume 37, Serial No. 71, Pages 524, Broadfoot Publishing Company, Wilmington, NC, 1997.